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Books, Essays October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

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Giorno della Memoria 2010

On January 27 Centro Primo Levi, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institutions in New York commemorate the victims of the Shoah by reading the names of the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Israel at 60

Manuela Consonni Remembers Enzo Sereni On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, Hebrew University’s Italian scholar Manuela Consonni talks about Enzo Sereni,…

Videos April 1, 2013

Ernesto Ferrero

In this rare New York appearance, Ernesto Ferrero, longtime editor of Levi’s work, offers new insight into Levi’s intellectual and moral concerns. “Is this a man? The German, the good…

Videos April 1, 2013

Tzvi Avni on Primo Levi

“Avni’s vivid settings recalled Mahler and Shostakovich, always responsive to the poem’s meditation on inhumanity, based on Levi’s Holocaust experiences. The five songs are structured as a set, the steady…

Videos April 1, 2013

New Voices on Primo Levi

Held on the 90th Anniversary of Primo Levi the 2009 symposium highlighted the critical work of Giorgio Agamben and the translations of If This is a Man in Arabic and…

Videos April 1, 2013

Primo Levi at 90

Each year, the Primo Levi Forum connects scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. What continues to emerge is the…